Jane Collins

Jane Maria Collins (born 17 February 1962) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Yorkshire and the Humber region for the UK Independence Party. An equine physiotherapist, she formed a partnership with Katie Bloom, wife of former UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom, in 1995, and became interested in the party. She was elected in 2014.

Education

Collins attended East Hardwick Junior School and Pontefract and District Girls High School leaving at 18 with 4 GCE O-levels and a GCE A-level in Art.

Career

On leaving school Collins was appointed Head Girl at a racehorse training establishment in Moss, South Yorkshire. In 1985 her family moved to Selby and eventually bought a stable at Willitoft which she helped run. In 1995 she met Katie Bloom and – according to UKIP they began a 9-year partnership as equine physiotherapists.

Political views

Interviewed by the Observer ahead of the September 2014 UKIP conference and therefore unable to discuss their new policies, Collins described herself as a “progressive libertarian.” Re Godfrey Bloom, she said his comments on international aid – a reference to his Bongo-Bongo land speech – were valid but badly expressed. She was concerned about “a developing health problem” in Sheffield which she says has an above average number of Roma Slovaks who are now resident. She also claims they have a higher incidence of hepatitis B – the subject of a planned vaccination program – which she claims will put a greater strain on the health service. She has called for those indigenous children who are in close contact with the Roma to be vaccinated as well.
In conclusion, journalist Daniel Boffey, said Collins would continue Bloom's tradition of stirring controversy.

Jane Beale

Lesley Jane Beale (also Clarke and Collins) is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Laurie Brett. She made her first appearance on 22 June 2004. Brett took maternity leave in 2011 and departed on 19 May. She returned on 8 November and departed on 27 January 2012. Jane made a return to the show on 6 January 2014 until 20 May and permanently from 25 November 2014. Her major storylines have included her relationship and later marriages to Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt); the first ended due to his affair with Glenda Mitchell (Glynis Barber), an affair with Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp), her desire to have a child of her own following a hysterectomy, a relationship with Masood Ahmed (Nitin Ganatra), her popular friendship with Tanya Branning (Jo Joyner), and covering up her adoptive son Bobby's (Eliot Carrington) role in the murder of her stepdaughter Lucy Beale (Hetti Bywater).

Storylines

2004–12

Jane comes to Walford with a funfair, working the candyfloss stall. She argues with Ian Beale (Adam Woodyatt) but helps out when the funfair collapses. She moves to the Square and becomes friends with Ian. She reveals that her husband, David Collins (Dan Milne), is in a hospice with Huntington's Disease. After he dies, Jane and Ian start dating and she moves in with him and his children, Lucy (Melissa Suffield/Hetti Bywater), Peter (Thomas Law), and Bobby (Alex Francis). When Jane and Grant Mitchell (Ross Kemp) intervene in a feud between Ian and Grant's brother Phil Mitchell (Steve McFadden), they end up kissing. Jane tells Grant she is not in love with him. After an argument with Ian, she has sex with Grant but stays with Ian, and Grant leaves Walford. Phil tells Ian about the affair so Ian proposes to Jane, quietly planning to humiliate her at the wedding. Jane learns this on their wedding day and disappears. Ian finds her and they have a fight but realise they love each other and want to be together. They marry in secret.

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Famous quotes by Jane Collins:

"Everyone has in their mind a picture of someone with a disability, and it comes from past experience. It is so much broader than that. For us to sit here and say what they can do would be just as complicated as saying what somebody without a disability can do."
"We all have arguments with our teenagers, you know? I don't understand this."
"Our comfort is, we know where Pete and Patty are -- together in Heaven."
"The gift of Peter Pan was the most generous present J.M. Barrie could possibly have given to the hospital, a cause close to his heart."
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